The origin and progress of the art of writing
Subtitle: a connected narrative of the development of the art in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico ... and its subsequent progress to the present day
By: by Henry Noel Humphreys ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century
Publisher: David Bogue
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Alphabets; Writing; History; Paleography
Other titles: History of writing.
Notes: Spine title: History of writing.

Decorative covers of gutta-percha molded to form a capital T with the rest of the title.